Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, CARE International is urging all negotiating parties to come prepared to tackle the growing climate crisis.

“Although the global landscape for securing a new climate regime is constrained by a lack of commitment from some of the large emitting countries, the most vulnerable and poorest people require urgent action to address increasing climate impacts,” says Martha Chouchena-Rojas, CARE International’s Global Head of Advocacy.

“Among those most affected are women and girls and we urge parties to put poor people at the centre of efforts to address the climate challenge.”

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres tells UN Security Council in New York: "There is little value in posing the simplistic question, how many people are going to be displaced by climate change? Instead, we should be addressing the more complex issue of the way in which global warming, rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and other manifestations of climate change are interacting with, and reinforcing, other global imbalances, so as to produce some very powerful drivers of instability, conflict and displacement." www.trust.org

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British police will examine a batch of email exchanges between climate scientists which appeared on the Internet on Tuesday as part of an inquiry into the hacking of the private documents, police said on Wednesday.

The University of East Anglia, whose Climate Action Research Unit is considered one of the world's leading institutions on climate science, said the emails appeared to be "a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change".

Sustainable development consultancy E3G says success at Durban will rest on three main pillars:

- A second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol for as many parties as possible;

- A mandate to conclude negotiations on a protocol or other legally binding instrument under the long-term cooperative action track by 2015 linked to robust terms of reference to the review of adequacy; and

- A decision (or set of decisions) operationalising the Cancun agreements. The main elements of which will be the Green Climate Fund, the system of Measurement Reporting and Verification (MRV) of mitigation and finance, the Technology Mechanism and the Adaptation Committee.

The African Capacity Building Foundation ACBF spokes persons Dr. Frannie Leautier and Kobena Hanson have stated at their annual conference in Younde Nov. 20-22 that the COP17 in Durban shoulkd not lose focus on the economic challenges facing Africa that is impacting on the ability of many countries in the continent to apply REDD+ as well as promote its agriculture which is the backbone of their economy.